On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. One boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt nobleman. One girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible love. And always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day. Ken Follett's masterful epic The Pillars of the Earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedral. Now World Without End takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change.

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781447218708

Ken Follett

Ken Follett made his first mark on the literary landscape with Eye of the Needle, earning him the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1979, aged only 29.

Since then, Follett has published over 30 novels, many of which became bestsellers. In 1989 he began to change the settings of his novels drastically with Pillars of the Earth, a historical novel set against a backdrop of war and religious strife which became a bestseller in Canada, Britain and Italy. It has sold over 18 million copies to date.

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“Great,.”

Another epic saga from the pen of Ken Follett. Just like The Pillars... full of drama and intrigue, love, hate, blind ambition, and machiavellian characters, some of whom one thought had disappeared only to find them...
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“World without End”

Along with 'the pillar's this is my favourite book. It followed on really well from the pillars too. I loved the history part of the book-namely the war and the black death and how people coped with the two....
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“World without End”

A really good follow-up to the 'Pillars...' book. Lots of intrigue, duplicity, avarice, sex and violence. Good range of characters, and plenty of story-lines set against some key events in medieval history....
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